Consider the following statements about the Congress resolution on th…

Consider the following statements about the Congress resolution on the rights of minorities passed after Independence:

(A) The resolution was passed at the initiative of Gandhiji and Nehru.
(B) Forced to accept Partition, the Congress now accepted the two-nation theory.
(C) The Congress held that India must remain a land of many religions and many races.
(D) The Congress tied the rights of Indian minorities to the treatment of minorities in Pakistan.
(E) The Congress promised to protect the citizen rights of minorities against aggression.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 1

The correct answer is Option (1) → A, C and E only

(A) The resolution was passed at the initiative of Gandhiji and Nehru. — Correct. The resolution on the rights of minorities came at the initiative of Gandhiji and Nehru.

(B) Forced to accept Partition, the Congress now accepted the two-nation theory. — Incorrect. The Congress had never accepted the two-nation theory. It accepted Partition against its will, but not the theory behind it.

(C) The Congress held that India must remain a land of many religions and many races. — Correct. The Congress still believed India was a land of many religions and many races and must stay so.

(D) The Congress tied the rights of Indian minorities to the treatment of minorities in Pakistan. — Incorrect. The resolution said India would be a democratic secular State whatever be the situation in Pakistan. Minority rights did not depend on Pakistan.

(E) The Congress promised to protect the citizen rights of minorities against aggression. — Correct. The Congress assured minorities it would protect their citizen rights against aggression as best it could.

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At the initiative of Gandhiji and Nehru, the Congress now passed a resolution on “the rights of minorities”. The party had never accepted the “two-nation theory”: forced against its will to accept Partition, it still believed that “India is a land of many religions and many races, and must remain so”. Whatever be the situation in Pakistan, India would be “a democratic secular State where all citizens enjoy full rights and are equally entitled to the protection of the State, irrespective of the religion to which they belong”. The Congress wished to “assure the minorities in India that it will continue to protect, to the best of its ability, their citizen rights against aggression”.”